Written by

Jack Garner

THE DAWN PATROL. This 1930 Oscar-winner was the first sound film for one of the great directors of the golden age, Howard Hawks, and sometimes gets lost in the shadow of the similar air-war saga, Wings, released a few years earlier. The Dawn Patrol got a second chance, though, when Warners remade it eight years later with Errol Flynn and David Niven. This, though, is the still-robust original, and stars Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The drama revolves around the actions and relationships among members of a World War I flight ...